Smetters and his colleagues published a list of suggested reforms that they think could help to fix the budget: raise the retirement age to 70, add a carbon tax, reduce social security benefits.

Wow, novel conclusion my guy.

I really wish I could respect economists, it seems like an interesting field if they weren’t such a pseudo-science.

When I was a kid during the Reagan years, we were shitting over the national debt hitting one trillion dollars. AH! Imagine that.